Status Updates From Song of the Sea

"To the One who holds the waves,
To the One who holds our days.
Keep us in your care
As land and sea our lives we share.
Bind water and earth
Into flames of rebirth.
Guide and bind us with your love."

Barcarolle nodded sympathetically. “Perhaps this princess will suit you.”

“From a kingdom called Cloudspiel? I doubt it.” Reginald grinned. “Perhaps she’ll have a sunny disposition, though.”

OH, REGINALD... :)

"Aria began to sing. The melody contained syncopated trills and spanned several octaves, ending on a thin note well above the middle scale...the final note hung in the air like a crystalline fragment of glass."

"The Porpoise churned through the water as she turned. Whitecaps frothed, and the wind, which had been playful earlier, was now unruly. Instead of playing with Reginald’s hair, the wind seemed to want to pull it."

"Reginald shuffled forward, leaning upon Barcarolle’s arm. His back ached as it always had. A prolonged birth that had caused his mother’s death and complications afterward had left him with a crooked spine. His pain always lurked below the surface, a companion he had grown to tolerate."

I love that this book features a hero with a disability!